Great Circle: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021

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Great Circle: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021
Paperback ? 4 May 2021
by Maggie Shipstead (Author)

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Great Circle: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021

Paperback ? 4 May 2021

by Maggie Shipstead

  • Publisher : Doubleday (4 May 2021)
  • Language : English
  • Paperback ? 4 May 2021 : 608 pages
  • ISBN-10 : ?0857526812
  • ISBN-13 : 978-0857526816
  • Weight : 670 g
  • Dimensions : 16 x 3.2 x 23.4 cm

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ISBN-10: 0857526812
ISBN-13: 9780857526816
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Spanning Prohibition-era Montana, the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, New Zealand, wartime London, and modern-day Los Angeles, Great Circle tells the unforgettable story of a daredevil female aviator determined to chart her own course in life, at any cost.

After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There--after encountering a pair of barnstorming pilots passing through town in beat-up biplanes--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fourteen she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy bootlegger who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement that will haunt her for the rest of her life, even as it allows her to fulfill her destiny: circumnavigating the globe by flying over the North and South Poles.

A century later, Hadley Baxter is cast to play Marian in a film that centers on Marian's disappearance in Antarctica. Vibrant, canny, disgusted with the claustrophobia of Hollywood, Hadley is eager to redefine herself after a romantic film franchise has imprisoned her in the grip of cult celebrity. Her immersion into the character of Marian unfolds, thrillingly, alongside Marian's own story, as the two women's fates--and their hunger for self-determination in vastly different geographies and times--collide. Epic and emotional, meticulously researched and gloriously told, Great Circle is a monumental work of art, and a tremendous leap forward for the prodigiously gifted Maggie Shipstead.
 

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Weight 0.67 kg
Dimensions 16 × 3.2 cm

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